Government lifts local wheat to Sh5,100 per 90kg bag after Narok pressure
Key points
- Government set local wheat producer price at Sh5,100 per 90kg bag — up Sh350 from last year’s Sh4,750.
- Announcement dated 7 August 2026 by Agriculture CS Mutahi Kagwe’s ministry.
- Narok Cereal Growers Association had given a 72-hour ultimatum after buyers offered below cost; they wanted Sh5,378 per Tegemeo study.
- Chair Standley Koonyo said private millers offered about Sh4,500 for wheat; maize offers cited at Sh3,400 private vs Sh3,900 NCPB.
Narok’s wheat fields just got a shilling bump — and still less than growers say the cost study promised. The government raised the producer price of locally produced wheat to Sh5,100 per 90-kilogramme bag, The Standard reported.
The figure, announced on 7 August 2026 in a ministry press release signed under CS Mutahi Kagwe, is Sh350 above last year’s Sh4,750. It landed days after cereal farmers in Narok issued a 72-hour ultimatum to demand better prices or demonstrate in Narok Town. Narok Cereal Growers Association chairman Standley Koonyo said buyers were offering below cost of production and that farmers had agreed with government on maize at Sh5,000 and wheat at Sh5,378 per bag after a Tegemeo Institute cost-of-production study. He said private millers were buying maize around Sh3,400 while NCPB offered about Sh3,900, and wheat was fetching near Sh4,500 — prices farmers called uneconomical. Growers warned they could paralyse Narok Town business if ignored.
A gazette price is not a cheque
Without millers and NCPB actually buying at the new floor, Sh5,100 is a press release. Flour consumers will also watch whether higher farmgate prices pass through or get swallowed by import C60 games.
Agriculture desk: Agriculture. Verified shilling figures and Koonyo demands from The Standard.
County should publish weekly offtake volumes at Sh5,100. Farmers should keep the Tegemeo study public so the Sh5,378 gap stays visible.
Seventy-two hours of protest energy should now become a season of documented sales tickets.
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Based on The Standard reporting of the ministry announcement and Narok farmers. Market offers vary by buyer.
